556 Extracts from the Minute-Booh of the Linnean Society. 



March 19. A Letter addressed to the Secretary from Charles Stokes, Esq. 

 F.L.S. was read, on the discovery of milk in the niammse of the Or- 

 nithorhynchus of New Holland, by J. M'Arthur, Esq. of Parramatta. 

 Communicated by Captain King, R.N., F.L.S. 



April 2. The Secretary announced that Mrs. Dickson had presented to 

 the Society the Botanical collections of her late husband James 

 Dickson, Esq. F.L.S. 

 1834. 

 March 4. Read a Description of a new species of Geaster. In a letter ad- 

 dressed to the Secretary. By Mr. Robert H. Schomburgk. 



G. DoNOVANi. Outer peridium 6- or 8-cleft ; lobes lanceolate, 

 acute, unequal, recurved; inner peridium sessile, sphserical, the 

 mouth conical, plaited, fringed at the margin. 



Found by Mr. Schomburgk in a grove of trees near St. Bernard's 

 in the Island of Tortola, and named by him after Dr. Donovan of 

 that island. This Fungus is met with in the months of November 

 and December. 



A Specimen of Nanodes iindulatus in the adult plumage was ex- 

 hibited by Mr. William Tucker, being the first of the kind that had 

 reached Europe. 



The bird described in the 15th volume of the Society's Traflsac- 

 tions, and figured in the •2nd volume of Latham's General History 

 of Birds, being in the immature plumage, and differing from the 

 adult specimen in wanting " the round shot-like drops" on the 

 throat, and in the less brilliance and beauty of the whole plumage. 



April 15, A paper was read, containing " Observations on some Species of 

 & Native Mammalia, Birds and Fishes, including additions to the 

 May 6. British Fauna." By William Thompson, Esq. Communicated by 

 the Secretary. 



The author commenced by stating, that a perusal of the Rev. 

 Mr. Jenyns's paper, entitled, " Some Observations on the Common 

 Bat of Pennant, with an attempt to prove its identity with the Pi- 



